116 



ILLINOIS BIOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS 



[404 



On account of the fact that, according to Rudolphi (1810:31), Miiller 

 (1780:208) ascribed four suckers to his Taenia anguillae, we must look to 

 Goeze (1782:414) for the first accurate description of the species. Under 

 the name "Der Kolbenkopf, Taenia davkeps^' he gave the following diagnosis: 



